Why, oh why, do they feel the need to make a system like this so "sterile" and "pretty." Aquaponics with fish have been in use for generations around the world.

“Mimics part of nature’s metabolic cycle; ammonia, which is the waste of the fish, is pumped up to the garden where the substratum of plant roots dispose it into nitrates and nitrites and takes it up to grow fast.”

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@corlin

I'm more put off by the apparent necessity for eye protection when you approach the thing.

@corlin

My guess was that the light they use for their tiny "garden" is high UV.

@mcfate @corlin
It has become fairly popular to put the roots of houseplants in aquariums where they remove a good amount of the nitrates and nitrites from the water which is beneficial to the fish.

@Xponent_Rob @corlin

I'm not to be trusted with plants, and fish seem on the dodgy side as well. Cats I can manage.

@mcfate @corlin
I just set up this 125 gallon aquarium last April.
I added the Coleus on top about a week ago.
I'm using some fairly weak grow-lites but new shoots are appearing already.

@Xponent_Rob @mcfate

The simultaneous cultivation of rice and fish is thought to be over 2,000 years old. Ancient clay models of rice fields, containing miniature models of fish such as the common carp, have been found in Han dynasty tombs in China

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice-fis

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I've been thinking about getting some of the fish that grow in the rice irrigation water. They are notoriously hard to kill.

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